Can I search in the web with Google Custom Search? Because in http://www.google.com/cse, I must enter a site url in "Sites to search"; And I don't have any url! because the Internet doesn't have any URL! (I think!)
Can you help me?
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Here's an official document from Google explaining it: http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1210656 – LonelyWebCrawler Aug 22 '12 at 18:03
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Here is the answer: > http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch/thread?tid=56c0bd92dda351b7&hl=en But there is still a problem: the total number of results is different from the one returned by google. It seems that CSE excludes many urls (for example the ones from forum). – Pons Sep 02 '11 at 08:45
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I believe you have to enter a url because google wants to know what website(s) the search form is going to be on. But after that, when your custom search is set up, you can go into its settings and make different changes. The best you can do for searching the entire web is to click this option in the "Basics" section of your Custom Search Engine:
"Search the entire web but emphasize included sites."
Hope that helps.
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This information can also be found here https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/2631040?hl=en :) – lesolorzanov Oct 26 '15 at 00:51
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From Google's help page here: Convert a search engine to search the entire web:
On the Custom Search home page, click the search engine you want. -Click Setup, and then click the Basics tab. -Select Search the entire web but emphasize included sites. -In the Sites to search section, delete the site you entered during the initial setup process.
https://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2631040&topic=2601037&ctx=topic
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when you are about to create a CSE, just enter some arbitrary URL for Sites to Search and when You were done, then you can select your CSE in control panel to modify it.
Like this example you can remove any previously entered URL and click search entire web but emphasize included sites option
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The point of custom searches is that they narrow down the content that they're trying to bring back to a subset of the google index. Specifically the stuff it has crawled on the sites that you give it. To add "The Internet" to a custom-search engine defeats the whole purpose of it. You may as well just specify http://www.google.com.
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@Cody Gray, yeah "crawled" is far more fitting and correct and was indeed the word that escaped me :) – Moo-Juice Feb 08 '11 at 13:09